wakawaka28

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by wakawaka28 8d ago
I'm confused. How does this disagree with me? You can do the same process with the same model, and that is what I was talking about doing.
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by wakawaka28 10d ago
You can have the same LLM check itself, especially if you start over with slightly different prompts or context. They sometimes get things right and sometimes don't. Although, if you genuinely have no way to know whether the answer is
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by wakawaka28 10d ago
"Becoming"? Lol it's been a reality for a long time. It's just ramping up now.
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by wakawaka28 22d ago
>>When their business is crucial to society and can't function without the workers at the given price >Yes, absolutely, if by "given price" you mean "the price Americans should reasonably be paid". But this
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by wakawaka28 23d ago
I'm surprised you can't find something to agree with in the first paragraph. I feel compelled to restate and clarify points I glossed over, to see which one you disagree with: 1. Foreign researchers can communicate with colleagues
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by wakawaka28 23d ago
You're right, they used to care or at least said the right things. Then I guess they realized that they could get more voters by simply importing them lol... >What I've seen is a local workforce (typically, then a mix of 1st ge
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by wakawaka28 23d ago
We are mostly in agreement. I'm pretty sure we need to sympathize with employers in situations like this, at times, though. It doesn't help anyone to reduce every shortage to a supposed moral fault in the employers lol. At what po
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by wakawaka28 23d ago
I'm not making any political statement here, or at least that was not my intention. Life is short and there are infinite things we could be learning about. The advanced math I'm talking about avoiding here is not recreational math
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
>They can't prove themselves abroad. Consider the example of "Attention is all you need" paper. That paper came into existence thanks to talented people from around the world coming together in one place and then collabora
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
It's funny how the loyalties of imported "talent" are not front and center in any discussion of how their presence is "strategically important." I think we are getting strategically shafted by lax immigration laws.
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
That isn't what it means to have a shortage. In many cases Americans are discouraged from applying for these jobs. They can overspecify the criteria or be overly skeptical about your resume, write the job listing poorly, or hide the jo
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
I think everyone (or virtually everyone) is OK with actual world-leading researchers coming to the US. But what we don't want is the labor market flooded with foreign "talent". The system is designed to try to get the researc
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
It wouldn't be 95%. The US is like 5% of the world, but it disproportionately contains the most qualified workers in many fields. Also, in many cases, even if a worker was somehow qualified, they would be lacking some basic skill like
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
OK now you're getting into some more useful topics. Linear algebra is a great one with tons of applications. But if you want my advice, prioritize useful stuff and spend less time on theoretical baubles or bedrock-level boilerplate. Th
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by wakawaka28 24d ago
I often ignore mathematics that is not completely useful to me these days lol. I get the appeal of learning neat theories and feeling like you got it all figured out, but I'd rather limit my studies to topics that are likely to bear fr
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
Those "stupid computations" comprise the bulk of useful work in the world. If one learns enough to do that, there may be no reason to go further. You're proving my point about the pretentiousness of insisting on the theory wh
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
Well, it's a fit for visual processing only in simple cases. If your graph looks like spaghetti, you need other ways to think about it. If the `git log --oneline --graph` view (or whatever options trigger it) is not good enough, then a
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
It's still specialized, but looking it up has gotten easier. It's better to use the right tool for the job. What's next, are you gonna tell ChatGPT to list your files too?
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
This seems like great stuff. Some libraries already do this, so why not standardize the behavior (to the extent it can be done)?
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
It's mighty pretentious to say that one needs all that theory to simply answer the question lol. For many questions, only the most rudimentary theory is plenty to get an answer, that is exactly the same answer as a more elaborate theor
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by wakawaka28 25d ago
Stop spamming me with burning straw men bro. I am slightly irritated with you because I think you're trolling me or at least wasting my time by being an idiot. I have asked some rhetorical questions in my response below. Do not feel ob
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by wakawaka28 27d ago
I awoke today with renewed energy to deal with your nonsense, and I think after reading this comment it deserves a (hopefully) short reply. >I use musl and I care a lot about performance. It doesn't matter because has no bearing on
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by wakawaka28 27d ago
>There are a few problems here. The first saying that anything is dramatically worse. The second is thinking that nothing can be changed. The third is thinking that there are lots of programs out there that spend all their time in C stri
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by wakawaka28 28d ago
>To be clear, you're saying that in video games and robotics people are using strings instead of numbers and when that becomes a performance problem you think simple C string functions are to blame? How about not using strings as va
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by wakawaka28 28d ago
>I would dispute this in anything that isn't mostly about string processing and in that case you can always easily grab different string functions, which you should probably do anyway if strings are that important. I'm telling
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by wakawaka28 29d ago
26% slower could turn into a huge hardware bill, and could render the library unusable for some purposes. There are many applications for which 26% is negligible, but it ain't nothing...
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by wakawaka28 29d ago
>Performance wise it's unlikely C string functions are actually the bottleneck in a program. Maybe for specific programs a naive memory copy function could benefit from AVX instructions. Many programs use lots of strings. It tends t
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by wakawaka28 1mo ago
Yeah I agree. The Python language sucks for stuff like this. Reproducibility is hardly a priority in a language where compatibility isn't even a priority. I like Python in spite of its many warts and wish it was possible to start a new
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by wakawaka28 1mo ago
I don't think they are talking about getting the artifact at the same time as the source or any such thing. They are saying, the metadata required to reproduce a build is not present in that sdist format, and there's no place to a
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by wakawaka28 1mo ago
There may be such a thing as pure test-taking skill, but I think it boils down to two things: General knowledge/literacy, and knowing the specific format of the test. A well-written test should not have question context for one thing t

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